atHome with Marcia

Ask me what I’m plotting and planning this winter and I may point to the walls that need painting in the kitchen, foyer and upstairs hallway.

Or I may tell you about my scheme to renovate my downstairs bathroom with a new walk-in shower, new black and white tiles, and a new floor plan.

Let’s grab a cup of tea at my kitchen counter and I may just crack open some seed catalogs and show you the heirloom tomatoes I have in mind for my garden this spring (enough to keep my freezer in sauce for the entire next winter), and the cold-hardy leeks I’m eying (to make leek potato soup). And the dark, leafy Tuscan kale I will plant in neat rows (again to harvest in the fall and freeze for the winter), and colorful heirloom rainbow beets that look so pretty and tempting.

But some days my planning and plotting wane like the bleak winter sun. And I think: Will I have all this energy to complete all my projects? Winter, especially when it drags on, has a way of taking the wind out of our sails. But then, just like that, spring arrives, and suddenly, I rise and shake off my passive planning and plotting, and get moving. After all, there’s lots to do.

Enjoy plotting and planning this winter. Spring is coming. Marcia

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